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angel al

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  • Birthday 08/15/1964

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  1. Those ventrals won't get any better so it's time to cull.
  2. I'd do what I did, mines been running for 2 years problem free & I didn't ruin the background. It took some time & effort but it was worth it.
  3. I had exactly the same issue 2 years ago when I installed a background from Patrick. I used the same silicone that you did & my fish reacted like yours. It was the silicone. I installed a wet/dry filter in behind my background & I used a fairly large amount of silicone to do it so I gave it a full week to cure. I put the sand , bio media & water in & everything looked great. I added a few fish & within an hour I had my first dead fish. At first I thought the silicone just needed more time to cure so I completely emptied the tank & removed the sand & bio media & let it sit dry for 2 weeks. While it was sitting dry, the glass developed a haze & I wasn't sure what it was. I didn't think it had anything to do with my water because it had only been in the tank a matter of hours & my other fish thrived in it. After 2 weeks I filled it back up again & even with the tank filled you could still see the haze on the glass. I didn't add any sand or bio media this time, I just circulated the water through the sump. After a few days the film on the glass started to lift in spots. Within a few days it was peeling off in small sheets so I installed a fine sponge on my prefilter to catch it as it peeled off & I rinsed it out every day & sometimes twice a day. I also changed the water completely once a week & in 3 weeks the haze on the glass was gone & I wasn't catching anything in the prefilter sponge anymore. I added a couple tetras & they lived so I added some new filter media & new sand. The tank has now been running 2 years & remains problem free. The film that developed had to be from the silicone, I've installed other backgrounds since with clear silcone that I knew was aquarium safe & had no problems, the only factor I changed was the silicone....just my 2 cents.
  4. Those would have been my stock. Check with Fairdeal, I believe he has some breeder size fish. Aquarium Central also carries them.
  5. I would do a drip into the bag or bucket over the course of 12 hours.
  6. I didn't realize you worked there Cursive Duck. Tuan has been getting his philippine blue stock from me. The cobalts he got from another source though.
  7. You can find those from 2 sponsors here, either Aquarium Central or from Fairdeal. The blue cobalts I saw at Aquarium Central about a month ago were a philippine blue silver that some wholesaler stuck a fancy name on but their color was nice.
  8. I've got a pair of angels called Money & BIG MONEY!!!
  9. I've got a pair wilds here that have small red spots throughout their body but those are not german reds, they're raising a spawn now though.
  10. Platinum Platinum marble Silver Zebra Smoky Smoky Pinoy One I can;t say
  11. The snakeskins are a genetic mutation of a philippine blue platinum & philippine blue platinum marble that had a common wild parent. That's about all I can tell you about the genetics. They'll be available in a few months, I need to have about 3000 before we release them & I'm a couple thousand short right now.
  12. This is the new snakeskin angel that Neil Oyama, Carol Francis & myself have been working on for the last year. We have it in seven different colors at this point. I have more pictures but I'm not very good at resizing pictures so this is all I'm posting right now. Thanks Jayba for resizing these. These won't be released for a few months yet but Neil & Carol thought we should start showing a few pictures of this new strain of angel. GetAttachment.bmp
  13. Good stuff, glad it worked out for you. Is your fish eating again?
  14. When I was raising fish in Red Deer in the early 90's I got a knock on the door & was greeted by the RCMP. They asked about my high utility bills. I told them I was raising fish, the officers looked at me like I had 3 eyes. Then he said I could either let them look right now or I could leave the house until they could obtain a warrant. I told them to come in & have a look. They had a look in the basement & the rest of the house & left. I never had anymore problems with them. My utility & water bill were 3 times the household average as I recall because I was running a drip system, special filtration for city water & a boiler. It's a good thing I'm on well water now, I'd hate to see what my water bill would be now.
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